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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:55:55
Message-Id: CAOdo=SxBD_crEhX7YjVqzwFdpwtrFagcCkq6-177ZiAh+Nu8Rg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 by Michel Catudal
1 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
3 >>
4 >> Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like
5 >> FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on
6 >> whatever the fuck they want. The problem with FOSS is that we have too many
7 >> idiots that like to rant about what they don't like instead of doing
8 >> something about it. If all those energies went to improving the software
9 >> FOSS would be so much better.
10 >
11 > No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some
12 > override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance toward
13 > people who want grub on a partition and remove the part in the installer
14 > that refuses to install it unless you give it an override. If I say write
15 > the bootloader on the partition, that should work as requested, they can
16 > still write a comment that they do not like us doing it but should not keep
17 > us from doing it. If it doesn't work we will see it soon enough.
18
19 So you want the Gentoo grub2 maintainer to patch grub2 to remove the
20 warning about partitions and the need for "--force" so that you can
21 use "grub2-install /dev/sda1"?
22
23 Isn't simpleer and more efficient for you to use "--force"?!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>